Was man meant to work inside a cubicle eight hours a day?

Was man meant to work inside a cubicle eight hours a day?

It seems so mentally exhausting

Learn a trade faggot

No but I gotta feed myself somehow.

This. Or get use to having a case of the Mondays.

Don't worry, soon machines will replace all office jobs and all manual labor jobs. No one will have any money.

Hate Has No Home Here

Looks like there is some kind of faggots raiding us.

>make jobs that only require pushing a lot of buttons and some brainpower

The problem is when you've done the job but the boss thinks you're slacking off

I dunno.
Want to write a virus the funnels off rounded off cents in to a secret bank account?

I have my own corner office and it's still fucking miserable. Plants help.

>T-thanks capitalism

then quit and work at another job.
manual labor jobs are a dime a dozen.
nice comfy desk jobs are hard to come by.
so yeah, quit your comfy job faggot.
some of us would enjoy that chair that youre bitching about.

yeah did one but manual labor is more demanding than sitting in an office.

>tfw spend around 16 hours a day sitting in front of the computer working and love it
Granted, I am self-employed and work from home..

It's called salami slicing

I started a government office job a few months ago, my first office job for some years.

Open plan offices must be popular because they promote dumbed down and shallow thinking, turning people in to wage cucks. Sitting down all day makes me feel like a cuck. Being a student was much better.

I arrive late as fuck and take really long lunch breaks and extra breaks. If I wasn't the lowest rank of employee and had actual work to do then I couldn't waste so much time. I don't know what I'd do then

I made it through about seven years. Quit my 100k/year job. What am I supposed to do now?

>yearns for 8 hours of daily ass to chair
>flag

this really is a thing isn't it

what do you do? i wanna do the same.

Why'd you quilt a sweet gig like that?

You could've at least saved up and retired early

Kaczynski was right.

I was able to, for years, but it finally got to me. I'll have to go back to it, I'll see whether I can get a slightly different role, or, what will happen.
t. old software engineer.

I've realized it's really unnatural.

Desk jobs have been made out to be more desirable and come with a higher social status mostly because of the perception it's easy work for educated people that pays very well.

The reality is that unless you're fairly high up in the organization or highly specialized in your field you probably won't be making that much at your desk job. Worse, what you're doing is terrible for you physically and mentally. You'll end up fat or skinnyfat, depressed, and in debt anyway.

Skilled trades may pay as much or even more, allow for more time off, and generally leave you with greater job satisfaction. Sure, in certain circles it leaves you with a lower perceived social status but do you care?

I never knew.

It doesn't seem like anyone has really had a good wack at it though. Only one guy who used the Office Space idea and got caught because he used accounts with King of the Hill names on them.

So long as I don't need to talk with actual people I wouldn't mind.

Was man meant to stalk prey 12 hours a day? Till a farm? Work a coal mine? Hammer iron? March with an army? Sit on a chair?

What kind of retarded faggot question is this.

I'm a Data Analyst. You could argue that as a contractor I am still a slave, but I enjoy my work and the little more freedom it offers compared to wageslaving. I definitely wouldn't (and I don't have to) work as much if I didn't enjoy it.

Human facing one's will remain, and you can expect a higher standard from those humans.

Surprisingly, even things like being a waiter or receptionist at a good hotel or resturant won't be automated; you're spending good money, you don't want to place your own orders or keep pushing buttons on a touch pad.

Nursing, physiotherapy, teaching, etc will all remain. Surgeons are likely to be replaced but that's way into the future.

Creative and trade based jobs will remain too, architects, chefs, research scientists, designers.

Menial shit will definitely drop, so labour intensive and repetitive work. If you work as a faceless employee, your business customers don't know your name, and most of your work feels unnecissary, you have a few years left to get into something useful.

People tend to seek out stability and that is what makes repetitive nondescript office cubicle drone jobs alluring at first. Over time though that same stability, low risk, and anonymity change to stuck, boring, and forgotten. And that's when they realize that their body is atrophied and fat, they have no skills outside their cubicle, and they are a dime a dozen cog in a machine. Then they start counting the days towards their retirement like its the start of their real life, when really it just marks when they are finally too tired to sit on their ass in a cubicle and switch to sitting on their ass at home. When they get to the day the office throws a retirement "party" in the break room and misspells their name and congratulates them for spending 45 loyal years in their cubicle like its some kind of fucking accomplishment because no one can remember anything else of consequence they did.

thats interesting. what does that even mean, though? you analyze, what? just random numbers or stats, or? and what about job security, what is it that an AI couldn't do faster or more efficiently that a human needs to be at the wheel? this sounds like a dream job for me, i would love to put my PC to use like that.

>Was man meant to tame ferocious beasts?
>Was man meant to bend the land to his needs?
>Was man meant to travel at speeds no animal can compete?
>Was man supposed to fly?
The answer to these questions and yours is simple: No. But by God, man will do it.

tfw work from home master race. although i go into the office once a week to say hi to everyone.

Fucking wish I had a cubicle.

Instead I have no divider between me and the other plebs, who smell very bad and are quite loud.

the hardest physical task is always easier than the hardest mental task.

Studying computer science here. Is programming as bad as in Office Space?

My goal in life is to have a qt wife and a son.
If that means I have to get a stable desk-slave job then so be it.
We all can't be rock stars.

>Learn a trade
>Laugh at fags going into debt for cause muh education
>make 26 dollars an hour working pipelines
>with overtime bring home close to 60,000
>buy kickass lifted truck fuck yeah
>10 years later
>tear rotator cuff pulling pipe wrench
>Go on workers comp
>OHshit


>Kids out of uni making 70,000 starting
>full benifits
>Flex time
>office gym
>Outside in the field 50% of time

What ever helps you sleep at night I guess

Hear me Nix? You've been demoted.

I want a job like this desu. it seems pretty comfy

>you have a few years left to get into something useful.
Such an astoundingly low percentage of people working in jobs that are due be automated out have the capacity to make that transition that advising it is asinine. And then, when they're no longer participating in the workforce, their inability to pay for the services you describe as something useful is going to mean the demand for them drops. A large part of them will no longer find themselves useful after all.

This is a ticking time bomb of the worst sort.

I work as an electrician but I don't really like "jobs" anymore. Once I finish my apprenticeship I'm going back to my original passion of drawing anime tits and live off of commissions and little pet projects.

>kids out of uni making money

Cmon, gramps.

Same here. I want to talk about how I contributed in the meme war of 2016.

>was man really meant to feed himself

what do you want to do, sit around and collect resources like an amoeba?

If you're super special they plant a tree in your honour or name a conference room after you. Carpe diem compadre.

lol work in cubicle, browse Sup Forums at work, play solitare.

eyyy im a fraccer, but i only get 15 an hour.

i literally just got into the industry at this entry level postion, any tips on how to move up to your level? 15 an hour is amazing to me, but i hear everyone else gets paid for 24 hours of the day even when they sleep, i only get 15 hour work days.

It was beautiful lad.
2016 was a Hell of a year.

is this bait? end yourself.

I mud walls and ceilings all day. It's physically exhausting. Mentally exhausting sounds a lot easier

I always see people bitching about cubicle office type jobs but hear that most of the time they don't have to work and can just fuck around on the internet while getting paid.

Suck my motherfucking ass I would kill for something like that right now.

a good engineering degree trumps any trade education

>t. trade fag making twice as much and living the dream after just 4 short years

I've never minded working in an office, it's much better than things I've done in the past. Restaurants, clubs, wearhouses, retail jobs all suck. Almost everyone I've ever met that leaps to criticizing them (which is a very broad category of employment) has either never worked in an office or has only ever worked in an office

I work in a trade and honestly I'm thinking I might get a cushy office job. I hate the idea of hurting my joints and back to make my company rich. You're nothing but a human tool to them, and if you break they'll just throw you out and get a new one.

What background did you have to become a data analyst?

What are fields for making 70k straight out of university?

take joint recovery pills man, it helps

>I might get a cushy office job.
>I hate the idea of hurting my joints and back
Got some news for you user...

if you have a high iq don't learn a trade, it will leave your soul empty. see: curse of high iq by aaron clarey

That seems like shit money in any level of the energy sector. I worked for one of my states gas companies doing distribution line work. Working your ass off and manning up when shit needs done goes a long way when the right people are watching. But honestly if you're going to work that hard you may as well just take out some loans, grit down on some math, get through 4 years, and then you'll be the white hardhat in the truck while everyone else is freezing their dicks off.

How would a trade leave you souless?
Just accept what you do for money, take pride in it.

Id feel embarrassed to say i work in an office honestly.

Store certain engineering degrees from good colleges

I'd love to work 8 hours, pubic accounting is unnecessarily inefficient

>debt
lmao poorfags

Go into inspection or QC like me, make 50% more, good mix of desk work and moving around, easy on the body. End up being a manager or QC engineer down the road.

ME WELD METAL
ME CUT METAL
ME CUT WOOD
ME PLACE PIPE

yeah no trades are good for men who have the brain to not think, but for men who become bored without constant intricate intellectual stimulation doing those things are not so fun, it leaves you empty as fuck.

i definitely don't endorse retarded woman's shit like office assistant, i mean hard core data science or programming work. nothing wrong with trade compared to office, just two different types of people. one uses their body because he doesn't like to think and the other uses their brain because he doesn't like to move.

Control systems and PLC's. Basically all the Electrical engineering that make industry plants and productions run. Electrical is so general that the amount of high skilled work available in industry is overwhelming. And it's not like Mechanical where you need to be where the jobs are. Everywhere needs control and electrical shit done

You think your white collar employer won't throw you out as soon as they can replace you with a computer program that does your job?

It's kind of what I assumed I'd be doing straight out of college. But ended up getting a job doing field work (nothing very physically demanding though, 90% of what I do is in front of a windshield or laptop screen), and couldn't imagine being cramped into an office or cubicle 8 hours a day now.

Feels good, man

i'll check it out aaron. i was actually thinking about this topic the other day about how i can't get satisfied by mundane jobs whereas other people can. will be nice to see another perspective.

That's just a meme, people have always said that. New technology ALWAYS creates new, often safer, jobs for the general population if managed right.

>oh man once they install these factories all those assembly line people wont have jobs anymore
>the printing press? what about all those guys who are hired to copy things down- will they just starve
>but if water runs into the city what will people who carry water into the city do for a living

The media talks about automation (no different than the past tens of thousands of instances of new automation over human history) as if it will destroy employment and create the need for fake soviet-esque government jobs and universal basic income. They want to use it as an excuse to turn us all into the gov's pets basically.

Trades are the smarter route though because you make just as much as office drones, get union representation and security, and have a lot of freedom usually not afforded by a typical corporate work structure.

t. DePaul University drop out and unionized sailor who makes 70k and only works 6 months out of the year

Dropping out of university was the smartest thing I ever did.

All work sucks.
No matter what you end up doing it ends up sucking.

There are lots of people working in cubicles, so the answer to your question is yes.

The original end to Office Space had the foreman on the work site Peter was working at coming up to him and being a dick sending home the message that no matter what you do, work is pretty shit.

They got rid of the ending though and left in him being happy doing backbreaking labour.

Modern urban life is mundane hell. You sit in a tiny box all day doing meaningless work so you have enough money to stop off at McDonalds to by an overpriced lump of GMO lard and go back to you 500ft apartment and post on one of Zuckerberg's data collection scams, then go to bed to do it all again tomorrow.

This ending sounds so much better

>only eight hours

>learn a trade

Only if you can't make it as an academic.

So you are admitting that blue collar workers have it easier? Good job.

Manual labor will die down but never be removed. Machines are not self serving (yet). They still serve a purpose of making things easier for people. And people are still required to do things regardless of how many machines or advanced they become.

Nothing will ever be totally automated, but we are running into a problem of people being driven out of certain industries and not getting a proper education to deal with a new job etc.

>work 40 hours a week
>paid 38$ an hour
>I still don't know what I am supposed to do in the company

yea so what you wanna fight about it?

>Only if you can't make it as an academic.
Shit, skilled trades pay better usually.

I did a 4 year apprenticeship, and am making over $75/hour if you include all the benefits etc. It is only $38/hour in the check....I can live with that.

t: Pipefitter

How did you get the job, and what the fuck do you do then?

nah man was meant to create shit outside in nature and build space ships and sheeit fuck a 9-5

of course not but its only 8 hours. 8 hours sleep 8 hours work 8 hours free time. make sure you use your 8 hours of free time getting active

this senpai
Deep down I know I could do better but the monotony, low responsibility and tediousness is almost comforting

>Kids out of uni making 70,000 starting

The kids out of uni are lucky to make 20 an hour to pay for 50,000 in student loan debt.

The "trade meme is a meme" meme is also a meme. You literally got double-memed.

>i mean hard core data science or programming work

I'm a programmer now and while I love the money I'd go back to my old groundskeeper job if I made even half as much there as I do programming.

Sure it was fucking boring but I got to drive an ATV all day and didn't have to clean up pajeet's mess or interact with literal manchildren.

Doing that shit is just as miserable for a high IQ person as menial trade work.

How did you land that job?

>democrat
>(((academy)))

Checks out.

There's tons of low-paying cubicle jobs out there. You're a bonafied cuck if that's the best you can do.

Me: Been a Data Center Technician Contractor for a few years, the money isn't bad and the work not too strenuous, but working towards getting into I.T.Security or maybe Database Admin.

tfw you're red-pilled on the STEM industry and its myths or truths, "feels good man".

I got 70k starting in Iowa as a systems/software engy

found the car mechanic at jiffy lube

>It seems so mentally exhausting
it is whoever says otherwise is a girl or a mangirl

Get your Math straight you porn addicted/fap addicted faggots; most of the good paying jobs require you to get that STEM degree.

Don't like Math? You don't have to "like it", you just have to do it and get through it. The only easy day was yesterday, HOOYAH!

you which

> was a mechanic out of highschool
> sucked
>did meteorology in Air force
>sucked
>be financial anlayst in private sector
> sucks

Work sucks, even being a rockstar.

I don't partocularly have a high IQ, but I'm spaced out 99% of the time.

I can't take to anything.